Racial Equity Summit

As companions within the FWISD Department of Equity and Excellence, the Eastside Alliance Community Partnership, Historic Stop Six Initiative and Adult Education use a collective impact model specifically serving the historically underperforming schools in communities in the east and southeast sections of Fort Worth.  This collaborative model engages organizations from different sectors using a common agenda to strive for solutions to specific social and generational challenges impacting students’ ability to learn and succeed. By aligning those efforts with agreed-upon measures of success, these groups constantly strive toward the shared goal of supporting the success of all Fort Worth ISD students and to ensure all students are prepared for college, career, and community leadership.

How do we innovate while still staying grounded in our community and in the needs of real people? Join Leadership ISD to practice using the design thinking/human centered advocacy framework to do a crash course in creating a racial equity opportunity for your own personal networks. Explore the possibilities in how to build our best programs, experiences, and advocacy efforts!

Participants will explore how their "Why" impacts the lives of Black girls; Participants will analyze the detrimental factors associated with the absence of having Black girls as part of the discussion; Participants will discover the meaning of black girl magic and how to cultivate and protect it, unapologetically